insurance

  1. Emily Taylor

    USA: Disability Insurance for ME/CFS

    July 2019 Solve ME Webinar: Disability Insurance for ME/CFS Disability Insurance Attorney Andrew Kantor from Kantor & Kantor, LLP joins us to explain the ins and outs of filing for disability under an ERISA (employer-sponsored) Policy when disabled from ME/CFS. Register for the webinar here...
  2. Dolphin

    Rogue company Unum’s profiteering hand in the government’s work, health and disability green paper (2016) (ME mentioned)

    https://politicsandinsights.org/2016/11/29/rogue-company-unum-had-a-profiteering-hand-in-the-governments-work-health-and-disability-green-paper/ Somebody sent me and a few others this today, saying: I haven't read it myself, thus far.
  3. W

    UK: Miley vs Friends Life 2017, Appeal result 2019 'Appeal Court judge accepts good and bad days'

    There's been some coverage of the Miley v. Friends Life case on here, I see, but this appears to have slipped through the net: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/evening-standard-west-end-final/20190301/281642486468311/textview From what's been said, I could understand Friends Life's scepticism...
  4. T

    How payments from insurance companies might potentially bias proponents of CBT and/or GET for ME/CFS (such as the PACE Trial investigators)

    NHS Health Research Authority: <https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/science-technology/Correspondence/190129-Sir-Jonathan-Montgomery-Health-Research-Authority-to-Chair-re-PACE-trial.pdf> --- CBT = Cognitive Behavioural Therapy GET = Graded Exercise Therapy Let's take Peter...
  5. Andy

    Stat News: Tuller & Lubet: The medical community is changing its mind on chronic fatigue syndrome. Why aren’t insurers?

    https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/19/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-insurers-disability/
  6. S

    Experiences with Insurance Companies

    Moderator note: Please be aware that this thread is not in the Members Only Section and therefore content is available to search engines. I have reported to the Financial Conduct Authority that companies are still including ME in mental health exclusions which goes against all the guidelines...
  7. Sly Saint

    Canada: Woman With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Denied Disability Benefits

    In Chicago Evening Post: "TORONTO, ON, CANADA – 06-05-2018 (Press Release Jet) — Like many people, Faith always assumed if she fell ill she would be covered by her group benefits insurance company if there ever came a time when she wasn’t able to work. Unfortunately for this 40 year old from...
  8. Cheshire

    Ex-Reporter Prevails In ERISA Suit Against Prudential

    https://www.law360.com/articles/1049513/ex-reporter-prevails-in-erisa-suit-against-prudential- (I can't remember Brian's name on the forum...)
  9. Sly Saint

    Government and Insurance companies - establishing the BPS model

    The connections between government and the insurance business in their joint project to reduce eligibility for sickness benefits. https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/sites/default/files/s36_04rutherford.pdf " In November 2001 a conference assembled at Woodstock, near Oxford. Its subject was ‘Malingering...
  10. Andy

    Guardian: "People with mental illnesses refused access to insurance cover"

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/19/people-with-mental-illnesses-refused-access-to-insurance-cover
  11. Andy

    Centre for Welfare Reform: "Deleted BBC News Item on Unum"

    http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/library/by-az/deleted-bbc-news-item-on-unum.html
  12. Sly Saint

    Per Fink - speaker at Swiss Re Ins Summit 15 - 17 Nov 2017

    I think Peter White was due to speak at this (?) But they seem to have had Per Fink..... Per Fink Head of Research and Chief Physician, The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital In 1999, Per Fink started The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders at Aarhus...
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